When it comes to age and infirmity, we're worrying about the wrong candidate
Donald Trump is trying to deflect attention from his own far more significant issues
The mainstream media has been focusing on Joe Biden’s age and alleged infirmities for what feels like forever. I can understand the uncertainty to a degree. The man’s 81, after all. My father was 82 and frail when he dropped dead in his backyard, so age concerns can be legitimate. Older people may have issues; that’s hardly a secret.
But if we’re going to talk about age and infirmities, then why isn’t the media also focusing on Donald Trump, who’s 77 and has his issues, as noted above? The four-year age difference between Trump and Biden is hardly significant when you look at them.
I may not be a political strategist, but
has a pretty solid grasp of how to proceed from here:yes please, more like this. this is exactly the correct strategy.
in 2016, Michelle Obama famously said “when they go low, we go high” — but that was then, and this is now. in 2024, we need to be “when they go low, we go thermonuclear.”
besides, you know that all of this gets right under Donny Fuckface’s skin. he absolutely cannot handle being mocked, and he’s losing his shit.
in fact, Commander Crazypants spent all of Easter Sunday completely melting the fuck down on his crappy app.
Yes, indeed…Commander Crazypants posted more than 70 times on Truth Social on Easter Sunday. What, he couldn’t even get a sympathy handy from one of the beer cart girls at Bedminster?
When they go low, we go William Wallace on them.
A stark imbecile. That’s perhaps the best and most succinct description of Donny Diaperfull I’ve heard to date. Astonishingly, his millions of followers refuse to see that about him. His ignorance and lack of native intelligence are neither subtle nor well camouflaged; everything about him screams “blithering idiot.”
Whatever success he’s experienced has been despite himself and not because of his self-professed “genius.”
asks about this part of the Trump equation. It deserves consideration but currently gets short shrift. Indeed, what about Trump’s epic, bottomless stupidity? Why is the media giving the presumptive GOP nominee a pass on that?“How dumb is Trump?” may sound gratuitously insulting, but it’s not. The man is an intellectual tabula rasa, an empty vessel into which much may have been poured, but virtually nothing has been retained.
I have to wonder why the mainstream media isn’t discussing Trump’s extraordinary stupidity.
The media continues to discuss Trump’s criminal indictments, and is — finally! — noticing that Trump is becoming less and less coherent. But why isn’t it reporting on something almost every lawmaker and journalist in official Washington knows — that Trump is remarkably stupid?
I don’t mean just run-of-the-mill stupid. I mean extraordinarily, off-the-charts, stupifyingly stupid.
All one needs to do is listen to him for a few seconds to understand that his Wharton education did nothing to improve his IQ. Dolt 45 is almost certainly the single dumbest man ever to soil the White House.
And we’re talking about a building George W. Bush, no intellectual titan in his own right, called home for eight years.
In December, Trump said his comments about immigrants “poisoning the blood” of America were not inspired by similar statements made by Adolf Hitler about Jewish people, because Trump “didn’t know anything” about Hitler.
In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Trump explained that “I’m not a student of Hitler. I never read his works. They say that he said something about blood, he didn’t say it the way I said it either, by the way, it’s a very different kind of a statement.”
That’s hardly surprising because Trump doesn’t appear to know much about anything. He’s a living, breathing proof of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
I seriously doubt Trump has read anything about anyone or anything for any reason. His intellectual curiosity hovers just barely above zero, and even when he was President, he was renowned for wanting briefing papers boiled to one page.
If he could’ve received his Presidential Daily Briefing in comic book form, Trump probably would’ve been thrilled.
The media interpreted this as Trump trying to backpedal from his Hitler-ish remark. But what if Trump in fact doesn’t know anything about Adolf Hitler?
After all, he recently claimed that magnets don’t work in water, that the Civil War was unnecessary because it should have been “negotiated,” and that no one would know who Lincoln was if he hadn’t gone to war.
Still don’t believe Trump is stupid?
Consider the views of the people who worked most closely with him during his presidency. Anyone remember when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “f—king moron?”
Or when National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster called him a “dope?” And Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, and even Rupert Murdoch all referred to Trump as an “idiot?” (Technically, Murdoch called him a “f—king idiot.”)
Trump’s chief economic adviser Gary Cohn described Trump as “dumb as sh-t,” explaining that “Trump won’t read anything — not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.”
When one of Trump’s campaign aides tried to educate him about the Constitution, Trump couldn’t focus. “I got as far as the Fourth Amendment,” the aide recalled,“before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.”
Yes, this was the President of the United States, the guy who took an oath to protect and defend the Consitution, the document he knew fuck-all about. Rupert Murdoch was right; Donald Trump’s a fucking idiot. The problem, of course, is that he believes he’s a genius. And this “genius” had access to the nuclear codes and “football” for four solid years. If that doesn’t tighten your sphincter, I don’t know what will.
Of course, Trump doesn’t think he’s stupid. “Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart,” he tweeted. As he recounted, “I went to an Ivy League college … I did very well. I’m a very intelligent person.”
Trump wasn’t exactly an academic star, however. One of his professors at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and Finance purportedly called Trump “the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.”
Trump biographer Gwenda Blair wrote in 2001 that Trump was admitted to Wharton on a special favor from a “friendly” admissions officer who had known Trump’s older brother.
Sadly, for him, graduating from an Ivy is apropos of nothing. People get into Ivy League schools for many reasons; being smart and intellectually capable is only one.
In Donald Trump’s case, his intellectual agility wasn’t why he was admitted to and graduated from an Ivy. If that were the primary qualification, he would’ve been fortunate to gain admission to Mamaroneck Culinary, Technical, & Beauty College.
It’s been said, often by me, that we get precisely the quality of leadership we deserve. I, for one, would like to think we deserve a leader with a functional intellect and an operational moral center. That’s what we have now in Joe Biden, and I think he’s done a helluva job. After spending the first part of his term cleaning up the mess Trump left behind, Biden has gone on to do good things, far more than Trump ever did.
When Trump begins to ask if we’re better off now than we were four years ago, this is also a measure of his stupidity. Four years ago, hospitals in New York were hip-deep in the COVID-19 pandemic and were storing bodies in refrigerator trucks because there was no space in local morgues.
Four years ago, restaurants, malls, schools, and other public spaces began shutting down as people were urged to stay home. Those who were out were cautioned to wear masks and stay 6’ away from one another so as not to spread the COVID-19 virus.
Four years ago, people were eating horsepaste and drinking bleach.
Four years ago, people rebelled against mask mandates because they infringed on their FREEDUMB!
Four years ago, there was no vaccine. And we lost more than a 9/11’s worth of Americans to COVID-19 every day.
Four years ago, we thought the Apocalypse was upon us…so I’d say we’re far better off now. Donald Trump only made things worse.
This was the backdrop as Donald Trump tried to determine how to manipulate the pandemic to make himself look better, except that he was too stupid to manage even that effectively.
It wasn’t about saving lives; it was about Trump’s narcissism, and it always is.
When we begin obsessing over a candidate’s age and mental acuity, we should be focused on Donald Trump, not Joe Biden. Biden may have the moments any 81-year-old could be expected to have, but Trump is the one who appears to be suffering from dementia and hypomanic episodes.
It’s time the media began focusing on Trump’s cognitive decline…and for the American people to start paying attention.
Unless, of course, y’all want a demented fool with his finger on the nuclear trigger….
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